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I'm david gura at nbc headquarters at new york. we are preempting "meet the press" for what's happening in washington, d.c. a very small group of white nationalists held their rally in lafayette park, directly across from the white house. just feet away. it's the same group from last year's rally in charlottesville, virginia, over the course of the day, that very small group has been met by a much larger crowd of counterprotesters. those counterprotests beginning many hours ago, continuing now. you see antifa protesters mixed in with the counterprotesters. derek hake on the ground. he was near...

Clear voice. i think we deserve representation that rejected lobbyist funds and put our voters and our community first. i felt like our party could be better. our message could be better, and that we could be better as a country. >> msnbc's derek hake is on capitol hill for . t to get to. leaderwith the democratic seemed to me as i listened to nancy pelosi he was not making as much of it as other people are. that joe crowley's out of there and, man, it's hard to overstate how stunning this is. >> reporter: yeah. absolutely, chris. a huge surprise. a 20-year veteran up here on capitol hill wide...

Their plan literally called "unified tax reform." the gop leadership spoke moments ago about their unity around it. >> this is a historic day. this is a day that is a long time in coming. in fact, it was on this day under this dome in 1986 that congress took the final vote on the last overhaul of our tax code. >> derek hake was there and joins us now. garrett, the congress wasted no time getting off health care since it's not going to work sayi saying they needed that for tax reform. a problem, they needed some of that savings to make tax reform fully work but some some plan now or at least th...